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Adele’s Popularity Extends To Funerals

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Adele breaks a new record and it’s one we’re sure she never anticipated.

Last year Adele’s popular song “Someone Like You” became the first single this decade to sell a million in the U.K. This year it’s reached new heights: it just entered the Co-operative Funeralcare’s chart at No. 22.

A song that was deemed the breakup song of last year by many has now become the ultimate breakup song between life on earth.

NME reports that the use of pop music at funerals has dramatically increased.

“In 2005, hymns accounted for 41 per cent of funeral music requests, but in the past 12 months the figure has fallen to 30 per cent. Only 4 per cent of mourners requested classical music,” NME writes.

Adele recently landed the cover of Rolling Stone and in the issue her manager Jonathan Dickins recalled the first time he heard her sing “Someone Like You.” He said Adele was especially protective of the song featured on her album 21.

“That was a very conscious decision by Adele,” he said “She was absolutely adamant, more than anybody else, that the song be stripped down.”

The largest funeral director in the U.K., Co-operative Funeralcare was formed in 1844 and has over 880 funeral homes operating across the U.K. The Top 20 pop songs that have been requested at funerals in 2012 are below.